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Why Are Prosecutors Still Seeking to Execute People Who Have Innocence Claims and Untested DNA?

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|Date: November 24, 2019
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Why Are Prosecutors Still Seeking to Execute People Who Have Innocence Claims and Untested DNA?

In these last two months of 2019, one man has been executed and two others are facing execution despite c ...

In these last two months of 2019, one man has been executed and two others are facing execution despite claims that they can show they don’t belong on death row. By Lauren Gill On Nov. 15, Texas’s hig ...

November 24, 2019
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 20: George Powell – Bad Forensics Leads to Wrongful Conviction

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|Date: November 22, 2019
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 20: George Powell – Bad Forensics Leads to Wrongful Conviction

From 2003 to 2008, George Powell III had been living in a town which had a large soldier presence and wor ...

From 2003 to 2008, George Powell III had been living in a town which had a large soldier presence and working on music. He appreciated the soldier population there but found the Killeen police mistrea ...

November 22, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Couzens Illustrates Win at All Costs Approach that Puts Innocent People at Risk of this District Attorney

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 18, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Couzens Illustrates Win at All Costs Approach that Puts Innocent People at Risk of this District Attorney

Analysis: Court Transcripts Show Mr. Couzens Setting Up the Ambush When Ryan J. Couzens, Deputy DA in Yol ...

Analysis: Court Transcripts Show Mr. Couzens Setting Up the Ambush When Ryan J. Couzens, Deputy DA in Yolo County, walked into court early Monday morning on the 28th of October, it seemed he had two p ...

November 18, 2019
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Everyday Justice Podcast Episode 19: David Thorne and a Murder for Hire That Wasn’t

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 15, 2019
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Everyday Justice Podcast Episode 19: David Thorne and a Murder for Hire That Wasn’t

David Thorne is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for allegedly hiring an acquain ...

David Thorne is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for allegedly hiring an acquaintance to kill the mother of his son – however, he never hired anyone nor did the acquaintance d ...

November 15, 2019
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Commentary: Zero Is the Number Freed by Conviction Integrity Units Here

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 14, 2019
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Commentary: Zero Is the Number Freed by Conviction Integrity Units Here

According to an article this week in the Washington Post, there are now 49 conviction review units in DA ...

According to an article this week in the Washington Post, there are now 49 conviction review units in DA offices across the US – most of those started in the last five years. The Washington Post on Tu ...

November 14, 2019
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Opposing Arguments Submitted As Judge Will Decide Constitutionality of SB 1437 in 2002 Halloween Homicide Case

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|Date: November 07, 2019
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Opposing Arguments Submitted As Judge Will Decide Constitutionality of SB 1437 in 2002 Halloween Homicide Case

The petition for resentencing under SB 1437 for two of the men convicted in the 2002 double-murder known ...

The petition for resentencing under SB 1437 for two of the men convicted in the 2002 double-murder known as the Halloween Homicides has been reset for November 20. Deputy Public Defender Ron Johnson, ...

November 07, 2019
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 17: Tio Sessoms and His Fight for Exoneration

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|Date: November 05, 2019
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 17: Tio Sessoms and His Fight for Exoneration

Tio Dinero Sessoms was 19 years old when two Sacramento homicide detectives interrogated him about a dead ...

Tio Dinero Sessoms was 19 years old when two Sacramento homicide detectives interrogated him about a deadly home invasion he says he didn’t participate in. November 1999. He would be coerced into maki ...

November 05, 2019
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Reforming the Prosecution System: Addressing Wrongful Convictions and Mass Incarceration

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|Date: October 28, 2019
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Reforming the Prosecution System: Addressing Wrongful Convictions and Mass Incarceration

By Danielle Silva The Vanguard hosted its 9th annual fundraiser event, featuring speakers who addressed h ...

By Danielle Silva The Vanguard hosted its 9th annual fundraiser event, featuring speakers who addressed how the prosecution system needs to be reformed. President of the National Lawyers’ Guild Elizab ...

October 28, 2019
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A Numbers Game: CA Victim Compensation Board Denies Man Falsely Convicted for Decades $1 Million Claim

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|Date: October 23, 2019
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A Numbers Game: CA Victim Compensation Board Denies Man Falsely Convicted for Decades $1 Million Claim

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – In the end, it appears Maurice Caldwell is, an ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – In the end, it appears Maurice Caldwell is, and always has been, just a number. A bunch of them really. $1,049,160. That would be what the St ...

October 23, 2019
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Wrongful Convictions & Restorative Justice: What’s the Connection?

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|Date: October 16, 2019
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Wrongful Convictions & Restorative Justice: What’s the Connection?

By Lisa Rea and Jeffrey Deskovic Some think there is little connection between wrongful convictions and r ...

By Lisa Rea and Jeffrey Deskovic Some think there is little connection between wrongful convictions and restorative justice, but we have learned that the connection is direct. In this article, RJ4All ...

October 16, 2019
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Unanimous Support for Providing Housing Funds and Free Education to the Wrongfully Convicted

Posted by Danielle Silva
|Date: October 11, 2019
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Unanimous Support for Providing Housing Funds and Free Education to the Wrongfully Convicted

By Danielle Silva California Governor Gavin Newsom has recently signed Assembly Bills 701 and 703, increa ...

By Danielle Silva California Governor Gavin Newsom has recently signed Assembly Bills 701 and 703, increasing the support exonerees receive after leaving prison – bills that have received unanimous su ...

October 11, 2019
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Analysis: Was Wrongfully Convicted Fashion Designer a Victim of Racial Prejudice on the Part of Prosecutor?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 10, 2019
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Analysis: Was Wrongfully Convicted Fashion Designer a Victim of Racial Prejudice on the Part of Prosecutor?

In 2008, Anand Jon Alexander, a rising star in the fashion design world, was convicted of multiple counts ...

In 2008, Anand Jon Alexander, a rising star in the fashion design world, was convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault and received a life sentence in prison. He is widely believed to have been ...

October 10, 2019
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Texas Plans to Execute Jewish Man Denied a Fair Trial by an Anti-Semitic Judge

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|Date: October 07, 2019
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Texas Plans to Execute Jewish Man Denied a Fair Trial by an Anti-Semitic Judge

By Heather L. Weaver UPDATE: On Friday, October 4, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, where Halprin had ...

By Heather L. Weaver UPDATE: On Friday, October 4, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, where Halprin had sought relief before turning to the U.S. Supreme Court, granted a stay of execution for Randy ...

October 07, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 14: Joe D. Martin Speaks Life from Prison

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|Date: September 24, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 14: Joe D. Martin Speaks Life from Prison

Joe D. Martin joins us live from his Tennessee Prison. His story from a Change.org petition: "Joe D. Mart ...

Joe D. Martin joins us live from his Tennessee Prison. His story from a Change.org petition: "Joe D. Martin, Jr., did not receive a fair trial in 1996. As a result, he was wrongfully convicted and has ...

September 24, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 13 – Free Ronnie Long

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 20, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 13 – Free Ronnie Long

This is from the Generation Why Podcast: "Ronnie Long. April 25, 1976. Concord, North Carolina. A man ent ...

This is from the Generation Why Podcast: "Ronnie Long. April 25, 1976. Concord, North Carolina. A man enters a home through an upstairs window and rapes the woman who lives there. Detectives work quic ...

September 20, 2019
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Couzens Drags Ajay Dev Evidentiary Hearing Out for Hours

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 13, 2019
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Couzens Drags Ajay Dev Evidentiary Hearing Out for Hours

If there was hope that a series of evidentiary hearings in the decade-old Ajay Dev case would shed light ...

If there was hope that a series of evidentiary hearings in the decade-old Ajay Dev case would shed light on what happened in the years leading up to the 2009 conviction of Mr. Dev – on charges of rapi ...

September 13, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 11 – Obie Anthony and Exonerated Nation

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 10, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 11 – Obie Anthony and Exonerated Nation

In 1995, Obie Anthony was 19 years old when he was convicted of murder and attempted robbery. Despite no ...

In 1995, Obie Anthony was 19 years old when he was convicted of murder and attempted robbery. Despite no physical evidence connecting him to the crime, prosecutors relied on testimony from an informa ...

September 10, 2019
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Lester Holt Talks about Why People Falsely Confess to Crimes

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|Date: September 08, 2019
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Lester Holt Talks about Why People Falsely Confess to Crimes

When a motion to suppress came forward in the Daniel Marsh case about five years ago, I was alarmed to di ...

When a motion to suppress came forward in the Daniel Marsh case about five years ago, I was alarmed to discovered that they took the young man, barely 16, interrogated him for about five to seven hour ...

September 08, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 8 – Marvin Mutch’s 41 Years at San Quentin

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 22, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 8 – Marvin Mutch’s 41 Years at San Quentin

In 1974, in the small town of Union City, California, a 13-year-old girl was found, floating in a creek. ...

In 1974, in the small town of Union City, California, a 13-year-old girl was found, floating in a creek. Having no leads, the police at some point focused on a 19-year-old security guard, Marvin Mutch ...

August 22, 2019
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Elizabeth Warren Unveils Her Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform Plan

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|Date: August 21, 2019
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Elizabeth Warren Unveils Her Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform Plan

Last week Bernie Sanders published his criminal justice reform plan. On Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren publis ...

Last week Bernie Sanders published his criminal justice reform plan. On Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren published hers – on Medium. “The United States makes up 5% of the world’s population, but nearly 20% ...

August 21, 2019
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